{"id":31356,"date":"2025-06-11T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31356"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:01:32","slug":"fund-cio-warns-cardanos-block-size-limit-is-a-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31356","title":{"rendered":"Fund CIO Warns Cardano\u2019s Block Size Limit Is A Red Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin Bons, founder and chief investment officer of Cyber Capital, has reopened an old wound in Cardano\u2019s scaling narrative, telling his followers on X that the network\u2019s \u201carbitrary\u201d block-size ceiling and real-world throughput of roughly 18 transactions per second (TPS) leave \u201cno guarantee of future scale\u201d for builders\u2014or for institutional allocators.<\/p>\n

Cardano Faces Backlash Over 18 TPS Limit<\/h2>\n

\u201cI want to like ADA; I really do,\u201d Bons wrote<\/a> June 10. \u201cCan someone please convince me to take their scaling efforts seriously? ADA\u2019s current capacity is 18 TPS, which is pathetic! Input Endorsers only increases that to 400 TPS\u2026 L2s such as Hydra<\/a> do not solve for L1 scaling. So what am I missing?\u201d<\/p>\n

That salvo drew an immediate technical rebuttal from Cardano advocates. Stake-pool operator Jarom\u00edr \u201cCardano YOD\u20b3\u201d Tesa\u0159 replied with a screenshot from IOG\u2019s Ouroboros Leios<\/a> paper, saying the new consensus layer \u201ccan have a throughput of around 10,000 TPS, and maybe higher, while maintaining a single global state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minutes later, Phil UPLC, chief executive of Anastasia Labs, added that internal simulations \u201cwith 30 input-blocks per second hit 11,790 TPS,\u201d insisting there is \u201cnothing preventing higher IB\/s outside of increasing validator hardware requirements.\u201d Bons was unmoved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all great in theory,\u201d he conceded. \u201cIf this were implemented in the next year, along with a block-size increase, it would flip my support. However, promises alone are not enough, as this has been promised for many years now. \u2026 Without stronger guarantees, the roadmap is too speculative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leios, first described in a November 2023 research pre-print and now tracked via weekly progress notes from IOG\u2019s dedicated scaling team, proposes a three-tier block structure\u2014input, endorsement and ranking blocks\u2014that allows nodes to process transactions in parallel before final ordering. The design echoes the \u201clocal fee market\u201d strategy popularised by Solana, yet aims to retain Cardano\u2019s stake-weighted Nakamoto consensus for settlement.<\/p>\n

For critics, the sticking point is not design elegance but time to mainnet. Bons pressed the issue again when Anastasia Labs\u2019 Phil argued that Input Endorsers (IE) without Leios should already reach \u201cmuch more than\u201d 400 TPS if governance lifts the hard cap. \u201cThe 400 TPS figure was from running IE without Leios,\u201d Bons replied. \u201cI was expecting IE to launch before Leios. Is that what I am missing? I understood there is no release date for Leios? I am reading the Lanningham paper now, which is brilliant\u2014but still purely theoretical.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debate then shifted to Cardano\u2019s conservative block parameters. Delegate representative @Cerkoryn defended the status quo, saying the 100 kB body limit \u201cmakes the chain more egalitarian by making it so that almost anyone can run a node with a basic desktop computer\u201d and arguing that the \u201cbigger issue is having enough meaningful transactions to fill block space to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bons countered with a flashback to the Bitcoin scaling wars<\/a>: \u201cYou\u2019re defending the block-size limit, then\u2026 Based on this, I should have ZERO confidence that the limit will actually be increased. Understand where I am coming from; I saw how this promise was pushed back forever in BTC. I am afraid the same is happening to ADA right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theory Must Become Practice<\/h2>\n

When @Cerkoryn retorted that Leios will \u201cfully parallelise consensus\u201d so Cardano can \u201c1000\u00d7 the number of blocks flowing across the network,\u201d Bons said the mechanism scarcely mattered: \u201cI honestly do not care how you increase TPS\u2014through size, number, or speed of blocks. The bottom line is capacity. If that is achieved through a multi-leader structure, great. Just do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, even the sceptic sees a path to conversion. \u201cSounds great in theory,\u201d he told fellow delegate Dave ADA, who linked to Leios sprint updates. \u201cIf it is ever implemented in practice, I will become an ADA supporter overnight! If I believed all of ADA\u2019s promises, I would have been a supporter this entire time. However, I was correct not to believe them, as none of it has happened yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, ADA traded at $0.7173.<\/p>\n

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Justin Bons, founder and chief investment officer of Cyber Capital, has reopened an old wound in Cardano\u2019s scaling narrative, telling his followers on X that the network\u2019s \u201carbitrary\u201d block-size ceiling and real-world throughput of roughly 18 transactions per second (TPS) leave \u201cno guarantee of future scale\u201d for builders\u2014or for institutional allocators. Cardano Faces Backlash Over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}